Liu Xiurong
Lineage & School of Heritage
She studied under Mei Lanfang, Xun Huisheng, Furongcao, Hua Huilin and Fang Lianyuan, among others, broadening her range of roles. She was especially favored by Wang Yaoqing, under whom she learned such representative works of the Wang school as Zhenzhu Liehuo Qi (The Pearl and the Flaming Banner) and Qipan Shan (Chessboard Mountain). She is widely recognized as the disciple who, from the 1950s onward, benefited most from Wang Yaoqing's teaching and who presented the art of the Wang school on stage to the greatest effect.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in 1935 in Beijing. She is a national representative bearer of Peking Opera, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a Peking Opera performing artist and a first-grade actor, and she receives a special government allowance from the State Council. At 12 Liu Xiurong entered the Siwei Drama School in Beiping, where she was registered under the name Liu Weiman. After 1949 she transferred to the National Chinese Opera School, took Wang Yaoqing as her master in 1952 and Shang Xiaoyun as her master in 1961. Liu Xiurong was a principal performer of the China National Peking Opera Company; her representative works include Shen Tou Ci Tang (Judging the Head and Stabbing Tang), Fenhe Wan (At the Fen River Bend) and Bai She Zhuan (The Legend of the White Snake).
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
- Peking Opera Ⅳ-28
Profile
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